Fourth of July

It has been a busy summer for me. So that is why I am just now posting these. We had a great fourth of July. John had to work all day and so I decided to invite family over for a Bar-b-Que. We had a lot of fun playing and eating. We set up the tents in the back yard and then watched the fireworks in the front and then went to the tent to sleep. The kids absolutely love sleeping in the tent. The boys had fun with the sparklers and snaps. Laura and Jon spent the night in the back yard with us. It was just like camping out but I still got to use my own bathroom.

Tuesday Tell All

I decided to do a Tuesday Tell All about Pioneers in lieu of Pioneer day this week.
I thought that I would share these photos that Laura was kind enough to scan for me. This was the pioneer day parade that we did at Beaver Valley Ward in July of 1982, we are guessing. I do not remember may after this but they were fun and the picture now is even better. Can you find me?

A pioneer is defined as "one who is the first to do something", or "one who opens up the way for others". As far as Pioneers go I think of my parents as Pioneers. They were the first to join the church when a friend/coworker asked them to listen to the missionaries and not long after they were baptized and a short time later they were sealed in the temple for eternity with three children by their sides. They completely accepted the doctrine and their faith was strengthened.

Who knew that because of two righteous decisions and faith so many more lives would be touched. All of us have been to the temple and many of us have served missions, and touched even more lives. Now their grand kids carry on their legacy. Thanks mom and dad, I don't know that I could have just excepted it.

I was tagged!

Here are Ashton's anwsers to the following questions. I learn new stuff about myself all of the time and this was no exception.

What does Mommy always say to you?
Ashton: Be good

What makes Mommy happy?
Ashton: Don't hit , kick, scream,yell,spit, drew all over people

What makes Mommy sad?
Ashton: Spit in eyes and break books

How does Mommy make you laugh?
Ashton: tickles me

How old is Mommy?
Ashton: 6

How tall is Mommy?
Ashton: 2 low

What doesn't Mommy like to do?
Ashton: read books

What is Mommy's job?
Ashton: keep Ashton and Ransom safe

What is Mommy's favorite food?
Ashton: peas, carrots, salmon, eggs and jerky

How do you know Mommy loves you?
Ashton: I don't know

I tag anyone who wants to do it! Angie.

A special day

On Saturday I went with David to the temple in Denver.It is a beautiful temple. Which one is not beautiful?
It has been impossible for me to get pictures of Tahlia smiling by myself so here she is all smiles with a giant flower on her head.
Saturday evening my Aunt and Uncle came to dinner at Davids house. It had been about 14 years since I had seen them. See you did not break the camera mom!
Heather, Darin and James were there with us for the day and it was fun to see them
I have not done a self picture in years so here you go! Not too bad if I say so.
Here is Tahlia and her cousin once removed, James. James is about 3 weeks older. They are both pretty cute.


This was Tahlia's second plane ride to go home. She did really well and was happy to go home.
David I am really proud of you!

Sleeping!

Last Wednesday Ransom fell asleep on my lap within a few minutes and I rolled him off me and left to do something and when I returned I found Ashton asleep too. Then when I checked on Tahlia I found her like this. This just cracks me up, her hands by her head. Ashton used to sleep like that too, especially in his car seat. It is just so cute.

Trucks!

Ransom has been so excited about trucks recently. Every time we are out and he sees a big truck he has to tell me. He still does not attempt to say truck but he will try to sign it which is great. So today was a big day for him he got to see very big trucks and very big tires.
This tire behind us came off a haul truck and John said that one of these tires costs about $35,000 each and every haul truck has six tires that are replaced about every 9 months. The haul trucks are about the size of a two story house and hold about 400 gallons of diesel fuel, oh and they carry a lot of dirt. I should have gotten a picture of the truck but it would mean nothing from so far away, trust me. The hole keeps getting deeper and wider. It really is impressive but because of the expansiveness there is not real perspective in just looking at it or photographing it. John suggested that you could stack the world trade center towers on top of each other and they would not make it out of the hole.
There are some not so interesting fun facts for the day. It was fun to go out for a little bit and do something different. After the mine visitor center a couple of us took the kids to the park in Copperton and had lunch in the park and let the kids run. They have this very old cement thing that should go away that the kids just loved to climb on and did not look safe to me. So I went up with Ransom and the metal slide looked like the best way down so I had Ransom sit on my lap and we went down, down and down way too fast. I pushed Ransom to his face as I went down on my face too. How embarrassing. Everyone there had a good laugh. To bad there are no pictures of that it would have been absolutely hilarious. We all had fun!

camping anyone?

John got a tent that sleeps more that 3 people for his birthday. We thought we should try it out and set it up in the yard last night and we all slept out there. The boys thought that it was so fun. Yes I thought that is was a bit chilly! Here is Ransom asleep this morning.
Here is Ashton asleep. (He is in there somewhere.)
Here is Tahlia asleep.
So After breakfast we took Ashton to his last soccer game. He got his trophy today and he is so proud of himself and so are we. He has done a great job! Today he got his third goal to bad it was for the other team. Today the other team was pretty aggressive and Ashton got bonked on the nose and it was bleeding pretty good. Once it stopped he was ready to go back out and play without complaining. He was a good sport! This evening we were out and on the way home Ashton told us "I had a lot of fun today." I am so happy about that because often things during the day do not turn out as I had hoped or planned and we often do not do what I said we could do and today was another one of those days and he still had fun. I guess that more water balloon games is something that he can still look forward to over the next week after all he got to sleep in a tent and got a trophy. That is a lot in one day.